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Month: October 2018

Putting the latest peace deal into real effect across South Sudan, must include addressing “in a stronger manner, the challenges facing women and girls”, said the UN’s leading voice for gender-equality, who is part of a joint United Nations-African Union delegation to the country this week. The delegation’s there to express solidarity with the people and leadership of the country, in support of the peace agreement signed early last month in Addis Ababa by President Salva Kiir and his…

John Achiek Mabior lost his father in his country’s five-year-long civil war. Given where the country is today, the son says his father in some ways may have been the lucky one. “He was shot on his left thigh and later died of the gun wound,” said Mr. Achiek Mabior, a 30-year-old Juba resident. “Many lives have been lost since the war started. People are suffering because there’s no provision of basic needs by the government.” The world’s youngest…

Prisoners at a detention center in South Sudan’s capital Juba staged a riot early on Sunday, seizing weapons from a storeroom and triggering a standoff with guards. Residents of the area had early Sunday morning said they heard guns shorts in the wee hours of Sunday, prompting panic in the neighboring places. According to a resident of the area who also works at National Security Service headquarters, known as Blue House, she saw bullet holes in the walls of…

Prisoners in South Sudan’s notorious Blue House say about 200 of them broke into a store in the prison where weapons are kept early Sunday morning local time and are holding two “unharmed” prison guards hostage, demanding the government provide prisoners with due process. The prisoners say they “do not want to fight, we just want our voice to be heard” and add they have no intention of firing back at South Sudanese military and national security personnel who…

There are some positive signs that South Sudan’s nearly five-year civil war is finally coming to an end. On September 12, South Sudan President Salva Kiir and opposition leader Riek Machar signed a revitalized peace agreement that, at least on paper, ends the violent conflict that has devastated the country. Kiir further bolstered hopes for lasting peace when he called for the immediate release of all opposition fighters and political prisoners last Friday. In contrast, a September 26 New…

The last remaining group of South Sudanese rebels who had been in exile in Democratic Republic of Congo have left to return home or third country destinations, a rebel spokesman and the United Nations said on Thursday. A relapse into war in July 2016 between forces of South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and his former deputy Riek Machar led to a flight of rebels from the capital Juba. Hundreds fled to the jungles of neighbouring Congo where they sought…

A senior official from South Sudan traveled to Washington this week to solicit U.S. support—and money—for a fragile new peace deal aimed at ending the country’s five-year civil war. In the past, billions of U.S. dollars have flowed into the new nation, along with a great deal of tender American attention. But the mood in Washington is much different now. This time, the Americans scoffed at and castigated the visitor, Taban Deng Gai, the first vice president of South…

At least 10 people have died and dozens others injured after a hand grenade exploded in a nightclub in South Sudan’s western town of Yambio, police said on Monday. James Monday Enoka, a police commissioner in Yambio, told Reuters six of the injured were in critical condition and that they had been evacuated to the capital Juba for medical treatment. The explosion occurred on Friday around 11pm local time when someone threw “a hand grenade into a club where…

Dr Evan Atar Adahar, who only sees his own family three times a year, runs a medical facility where patients are given ketamine before surgery because there is no anaesthetic A hero doctor who runs a hospital in one of the most dangerous places on Earth has revealed how he’s had to improvise surgical equipment using car parts to carry out lifesaving operations. Lacking even the most basic equipment, the medical facility in Bunj, South Sudan, still manages to…